corrupted song titles when i add album art

**Snortonnorton** · 08-26-2007, 01:06 PM

when i add a jpeg to album for display in iphone skin for RR, i get corrupted file name.

it adds a weird kinda jb looking letters to beginning of song title.

what am i doing wrong?

**treetop777** · 08-26-2007, 02:29 PM

It has something to do with your ID3 tags, search for "strange characters" and you'll find something about it.

**Snortonnorton** · 08-26-2007, 10:04 PM

ok, thanks

what's really f'd up is that i changed the folder several times and still have the same problem, but i didn't do enough searching yet.

**guino** · 08-26-2007, 11:22 PM

I am actually doing some work with the Tag support.. if anybody know a (preferably small and free) application I can use to produce these "corrupt" tags, I'd like to take a whack at it.

**Naesstrom** · 08-27-2007, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by guino

I am actually doing some work with the Tag support.. if anybody know a (preferably small and free) application I can use to produce these "corrupt" tags, I'd like to take a whack at it.

well they showed up for me after I re-tagged my entire music library with tag & rename, trial mode should be enough for testing... is there anyway to get it to show v3 tags since that seems to be the problem in most cases?

**doogieb** · 08-27-2007, 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by guino

I am actually doing some work with the Tag support.. if anybody know a (preferably small and free) application I can use to produce these "corrupt" tags, I'd like to take a whack at it.

I think I have the same problem with some files - I used the demo of tag and rename to fix it (and then break it again to make sure it was the issue) - if it's set to write the tags as unicode then they end up with corrupted characters, if they are set to non unicode then they work fine - you can rewrite the tags on the same set of files over and over to break and then fix them.

**Nomader** · 08-27-2007, 05:30 AM

@Guino,
use "TagScanner" it is free..
just enable unicode in the settings page, and you will have your strange characters!!

**guino** · 08-27-2007, 10:33 AM

I used that ID3 Tag It and it it gave me the strange characters, so I improved it so the weird stuff doesn't show anymore. Seems to work but I have to try some different files to see how well it's actually working.

**Blue ZX3** · 08-27-2007, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by guino

I used that ID3 Tag It and it it gave me the strange characters, so I improved it so the weird stuff doesn't show anymore. Seems to work but I have to try some different files to see how well it's actually working.

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